TY - JOUR
T1 - A novel phenotype of a Hereditary hemochromatosis type 4 with ferroportin-1 mutation, presenting with juvenile cataracts
AU - Yamakawa, Noriyuki
AU - Oe, Kengo
AU - Yukawa, Naoichiro
AU - Murakami, Kosaku
AU - Nakashima, Ran
AU - Imura, Yoshitaka
AU - Yoshifuji, Hajime
AU - Ohmura, Koichiro
AU - Miura, Yasuo
AU - Tomosugi, Naohisa
AU - Kawabata, Hiroshi
AU - Takaori-Kondo, Akifumi
AU - Mimori, Tsuneyo
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 The Japanese Society of Internal Medicine.
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - Hereditary hemochromatosis (HH) is an inherited disorder usually seen in Northern Europeans, which results in iron overload syndrome. A few cases have also been reported in Japan. We herein report a Japanese man presenting with fever, arthritis, liver dysfunction, and hyperferritinemia who was diagnosed with type 4 HH. He was heterozygous for the 1520A>G (His507Arg) mutation in the ferroportin-1 gene (SLC40A1). He had a familial cataract as an infant, but hereditary hyperferritinemia cataract syndrome was excluded. This is the first report of type 4 HH with juvenile cataracts and suggests that there is an association between hyperferritinemia and early cataract formation.
AB - Hereditary hemochromatosis (HH) is an inherited disorder usually seen in Northern Europeans, which results in iron overload syndrome. A few cases have also been reported in Japan. We herein report a Japanese man presenting with fever, arthritis, liver dysfunction, and hyperferritinemia who was diagnosed with type 4 HH. He was heterozygous for the 1520A>G (His507Arg) mutation in the ferroportin-1 gene (SLC40A1). He had a familial cataract as an infant, but hereditary hyperferritinemia cataract syndrome was excluded. This is the first report of type 4 HH with juvenile cataracts and suggests that there is an association between hyperferritinemia and early cataract formation.
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U2 - 10.2169/internalmedicine.55.6565
DO - 10.2169/internalmedicine.55.6565
M3 - Article
C2 - 27629970
AN - SCOPUS:84987849965
SN - 0918-2918
VL - 55
SP - 2697
EP - 2701
JO - Internal Medicine
JF - Internal Medicine
IS - 18
ER -